opera "Dzz Rheingold" ever Lord Rowallan recently retired made. The Vienna Philharmonic from the post of Chief Scout after almost 15 years of service On Thursday evening at 5.45 Radio Hongkong is broadcasting a recorded farewell message which he addressed to Scouts the world over, with a message for Hongkong included. The message is followed by a few words from the new Chief Scout, Sir Charles McLean.
The recording itself was some thing in the nature of an ex- periment that it came off is our gain. The -actual production involved almost a year of plan. ning. Decca was bent on get. ting the best possible cast and thus persuaded Kirsten Flagstad to learn the part of Fricka specially, and to develop the part into something more than that of the normal nagging
KWANGTUNG HANDICAP AND CROSS HARBOUR SWIM COMMENTARIES
Today
housewife. Gustav Neidlinger, 1228 pm. COMPOSER CAVALCADE,
too, was prevailed upon to sing the part of Alberich for the last time-a commitment he was re luctant to take on because it is one which could be ruinous to
prime.
In sound. this production comes about as near to what
Two big sporting events in Hongkong this weekend are the voice which, like his, is in its
Kwangtung Handicap to be run at Happy Valley Race Course this afternoon and the Annual Swimming Race tomorrow morning. broadcasting live commentaries on both these events.
Cross Harbour Radio Hongkong is
The Kwangtung Handicap for ten minutes before Radio Hong- Coverage of the Cross Harbour Class 2 ponies-one of the three kong will take listeners over to race is a rather more complicated big sweepstakes of the Jockey Happy Valley where Ted Thomas affair and entails commentaries Club's racing season-is run and Ron Whitehead will
be from two points on the shore as over a course of 1 mile 171 yards, waiting to set the scene as the well as from a
launch in the Sweep tickets this year have ponies go up to the starting line. harbour itself, been much in demand and It Commentators will looks as though the total sales listeners to the studio once the will break all previous records, result is clear, at approximately The race begins at 3 o'clock and 3.10.
DIXIELAND TO DUKE
CHRIS BARBER PLAYS
COLYER IN HAMBURG
BACK TO THE DELTA
Group.
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*
THE
BEST
OF
as
Hoaryy Carmichael.
1) TIME SIGNAL.
1.13 WEATHER REPORT. 1.35 TIME SIGNAL, THE NEWS & SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. 1.30 LUNCHTIME MUSIC.
And Suite of five movements from Rossini: March; Nocturne; Waits: Pantomime: Moto Perpetuo (Ben- jamin Britten)—-Boston Pops Orch. Artur Fiedler, Nor- bad. by wegian Dances for Orch. Op. 35 (Grieg): Alegro marcato; Allegretto e grazioso: Allegro moderato alla Marda; Allegro molto-Fracz Litschauer the Vienna State Opera Orch.
conducting
2.00 "STRING SONG".
Ronald Binge and his Orchestra 2.30 MUSIC IN A LATIN AMERI-
CAN MOOD.
Wagner originally intended anything could, and the achieve aquilo
2,50 RACING AT HAPPY VALLEY. The Kwangtung Handicap. Whitebeach Commentaries by Ted Thomas and
3.10 GUILTY PARTY.
'Tortune Teller's Lament,” Black Curtains Draped Arouna Walls, A Crystal Ball and A Robber.
340 "WE SING FOR YOU.”
The McGuire Sisters and the Platters. 4.00 THE AXT OF RUTH
DRAPER.
ment of this involved the em- ployment of a good
many revolutionary effects. It was one thing for the Vienna Philhar- monic to provide six harps for the rainbow bridge passage, but quite another to provide for the eighteen anvils written into the Rc score. The anvils themselves return Bill Dorward will be at Kow. were eventually found at what
loon Public Pier
the is known as an "anvil, school," where swimmers are waiting to take and then Just about every the plunge, and he hopes to get percussion player In Vienna was a number of those taking part in called on to play them! the race to come to the micro- phone. After his description of the start he will hand over to Another headache Mike Baldwin in the launch who 'thunder sheet:' a big enough one will describe the race from his couldn't be found in Vienna and angle, eventually handing over at last a somewhat astonished to Ted Thomas (waiting on the steps of Queen's Pier) for a description of the finish and Interviews
winning swimmers.
The race itself begins at 10.30 a.m. Commentaries and Inter- views will begin at 1020 and are expected to continue until about 11 o'clock.
BRITISH
JAZZ
Alex Welsh and his Band.
Volumes 1, 2, 3, & 4.
Ken Colyer's Jazzman. Ken Colyer's Jazzmen & Skiffle
SCRAPBOOK OF BRITISH JAZZ Various Artists. TRADITIONAL JAZZ AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL
Various Artists.
ECHOES OF HARLEM
NOTHING PERSONAL Mulligan's Band
BLUES AND
-
Chris Barber.
George Melly with Mick
Josh White.
CHRIS BARBER IN CONCERT Volumes 1, 2, & 3. Josh White. BLUES IN THE MISSISSIPPI NIGHT
★ LISTEN TO ★
Hong Kong Commercial Broadcasting Every Monday & Wednesday
at 8.15 p.m.
to
MUSIC FROM MOUTRIES
COMPERED BY
MoUTRIES
上
JOHN WALLACE
Alexandra House, Hong Kong Tel. 20527 Miramar Arcade, Kowlcon,
Tel. 63019
with
the
Tonight's "Sportscast" at 7.30 Includes a recorded commentary on the Cesarewitch Stakes, the 120-year-old race run over a 2/2 mile course at Newmarket, as welt
reports on soccer, cricket, softball and other local sports events.
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was a
steel foundry manager in Linz made something large and deep enough to meet the requirements of the climax of Donna's call to the mists toward the end of Scene 4 of "Das Rheingold.”
The opera, which is the first of Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung," lasts for 21⁄2 hours. which in this case means from 6.15 until 10.45 p.m. on Monday. A successor to Australian Radio and Television's series "Their
Valour" and the first programme Finest Hour" is "Tribute to
takes the air at 8.15 tomorrow night.
"Tribute to Valour" comprises a series of human dramas telling of outstanding acts of bravery performed in times of peace, and of war, by people in all walks
of life.
4.30 MUSIC FOR TIA TIME. 5.00 UNIT· REQUESTS.
Presented by Nancy Wise. Calling: H.Q. ·Landforces. War- rant Officers & Sets Mess
6.00
THE GOON SHOW." "The White Man's Burden/" (A repeat series). 6.30 SEMPRINT SERENADE.
With Semprini at the plan, and Orchestra conducted by
Harry Rabinowitz,
7.00 ANNOUNCER'S CHOICE.
130 SPORTS CAST.".
David Denkerley.
A round-up of the week. sports.
$
Produced by Ted Thomas. 1.58 WEATHER REPORT. 1.00 TIME SIGNAL, TER NEWS. 8.10 COMMENTARY. 8.15 THIS WEEK.
Compiled and introduced by Ted Thomas.
1.45 PAUL TEMPLE AND
VAN DYKK AFTAR,
THE
A serial by Francis' Darbridge. 'Roger Shelly Makes a Suggestion." 935 HANCOCK'S HALF HỮUE. 9.43 BLACK AND WHITE NOTES - 3.33 WEATHER KEPORT.
10.00 TIME SIGNAL, THE NEWS &
10.15 STRING ALONG WITH BILL
HOME NEWS FROM. BRITAIN.
There are two live broadcast recitals this week. On Wednes.
A Saturday Night Renderrous day at 8.45 from the Concert Hall
with BMI borwärt. Patti Duncan,
Tomorrow's programme tells 1833 WEATHER REPORT. a soprano well. known to Hongkong
the story of Bernard O'Reilly, 11.00 TIME SIGNAL, RADIO NEW3- Ilsteners.
an experienced will be singing a number of songs risked his life in the unexplored 18 CLOSE DOWN..
bushman who
REEL 11.15 DANCE DATE. by Brahms. Patti Ducan who did most of her training at the Jungles of the Lamington District Royal
of Australia to Scottish
search for a Academy of Music, where
crashed aircraft. Other she won several
pro. scholarships, had wide experience deal with Popski's Private Army, grammes in the same series In Concert and oratorio singing the Kembla Mine explosion, and before she came to Hongkong. On Wednesday she will be ac- companied by Ruby Woo.
an escape from Java.
* Then on Thursday at 9.30 the young planist Rosemary To is
Pat Nolan's "Sunday Selec- giving a plano recital from the tion," from 12.15 to 1 o'clock studios.
lunchtime, is
Sunday After going to school every
in England for seven years she made up of requests from family studied music in Hongkong with listeners to Radio Hongkong's Father Riganti and
Professor programmes. Ore.
the past three years means it's she has studied in London under the tastes
For
Sunday
1.60 a.m.
TIME SIGNAL, WEA- REPORT, SUNDAY STRING BONG.
THER
1.58 WEATHER REPORT. 9.00 TIME SIGNAL, THE NEWS. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
& SPORTS RESULTS. 9.13 PROGRAMME PARADE 9.25 RECORD ROUNDABOUT. 9.45 "YOUTH MAKES MUSIC.”
Tywardreath Youth Orchestra. Orpizyku Junior Singers.
INTERLUDE,
Not that this devoted entirely to of middle-aged
1920
Harold Craxton and she has her listeners but it does mean that Performer's Diploma from the during this 45 minutes not just Royal College of Music. She the teenagers,—anyone can sit returns to London. very shortly back and listen to the sort of
to resume her studies.
Next
music you like and you've asked for. All it requires is a post- card to Pat Nolan, addressed to *Sunday Selection," Radio week the Vienna Hongkong, P.O. Box 200. Philharmonic Orchestra arrives The news magazine pro- in Hongkong and will play at grammes "This Week" at 8.15 to- the Lee Theatre.
night includes an interview with As a prelude to the visit by Michele Mok who, as Miss this, the first full-sized drchestra Hongkong, will represent the. of international repute to come Colony at the Miss World Com to Hongkong from Europe, and petition in London: and
the as a demonstration of its quality arrival of the Bosing 707 on its and range of performance Radio first scheduled flight round the Hongkong is breadcasting on world, including Interviews with Monday night at 8.15 the first three air correspondents making complete recording of Wagner's the journey.
11.40
ANNUAL CROSS HARBOUR
SWIMMING RACE.
Descriptions and interviews Ted Thomas, Bid Derward and Michaet Baldwin.
A SHORT RECITAL.
By Keen Farrell (sopra20). With Garya Troville (pimo). 11.15 CELEBRATION OF MASS.
From St Joseph's Church. Preacher: The Rev. rater r. Crocin, S.J.
12.05 pm. KOMANCE FOR VIOLIN
(BEETHOVEN) NO. 2 T
MAJOR.
Herman Krebbers with the Residency Orchestra (The Hague) conducted by Willem Van Octerion.
12.15 "BUNDAY SELECTIONI.
A Family Request Programme. Presented by Pat Nolan. 1.00 TIME SIGNAL.
AT
WITH THE
RAGTIME ВНУТЕМ RUSS CONWAY PIANO.
113 WEATHER REPORT. 1.13 THE SIGNAL, THE NEWS &